Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole is a feminist utopian adventure novel, published in 1899 by its author, Anna Adolph.
[1] The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian fiction that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A number of late-nineteenth-century novels looked forward to the invention of the airplane, as Adolph's book does; these works can be classed, at least generally or peripherally, as science fiction.
She decides to fly it to the North Pole, accompanied by her husband, father, and friends (characters based on the author's own relationships[6]).
At first they perceive only a flat plain surrounded with icebergs; but the narrator detects a crystal city beneath the ice.